AAW is committed to protecting your privacy. We collect, store, and process personal data for the purpose of servicing memberships, processing transactions, supporting programs and services, operating the website, and carrying out AAW business. By registering for, accessing, or using this website, you acknowledge the collection and use of information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Your privacy and the security of your personal data are concerns that the AAW takes seriously. The AAW collects personal information when you visit its website to perform voluntary activities including but not limited to the following:
- Submit an application for membership
- Renew your membership
- Order products and/or services
- Become a chapter officer
- Populate a member profile
- Participate in an online community
- Register for the AAW Forum
- Register for the AAW Guidebook App for the Symposium
- Provide survey feedback
- Respond to calls for makers, artists, and demonstrators
The AAW may use personal information provided, including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and mobile phone numbers, for the purpose of conducting AAW business only. Your personal information will never be rented, loaned, sold, or traded.
The AAW may provide information to third-party service providers that help us operate the website, process transactions, analyze website usage, provide communications services, support event operations, and diagnose technical problems, but only for AAW business purposes and subject to appropriate safeguards.
Firewalls
The AAW is committed to helping ensure that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, the AAW has put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard the information it collects online. Personal information provided to the AAW is stored in databases located on servers protected by security controls.
Online Orders & Credit Cards
Online order forms are designed to protect the privacy of your credit card information, name, address, email address, and any other information you provide. The AAW is committed to data security with respect to information collected on its site. The AAW uses industry-standard security measures available through your browser, including encrypted transmission for payment information.
You may contact the AAW office if you are uncomfortable using online commerce.
User Passwords
The AAW reserves the right to use password control over some parts of its website. Where user passwords are applicable, the user is solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of passwords and other account information. Users should use care whenever they are online. Posting personal information online that is accessible to the public may result in unsolicited messages from other parties.
Members
The AAW website enables AAW Members, at their own discretion, to maintain personal, professional, and biographical information based on their own visibility and privacy preferences.
Individual Member Rights
- The right to be informed
- The right of access
- The right to rectification
- The right to erasure
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to object
- The right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling
Chapters
The AAW website enables AAW Chapters, at their own discretion, to maintain information accessible to and searchable by the public about their chapter and its officers, along with a group directory, calendar, blogs, and photo gallery. The specific information maintained and visibility settings are the responsibility of the chapter officers.
Makers and Demonstrators
The AAW website enables Maker and Demonstrator Members, at their own discretion, to maintain information accessible to and searchable by the public, including name, professional information, and groups. Additional information, including phone number, email, and address, may be accessible to and searchable by AAW Members depending on settings chosen by the participating member. The specific information maintained and visibility settings are the responsibility of each participating member.
AAW Directories
AAW online directories are confidential and are intended for member reference only.
The information contained in those directories may not, in whole or in part, be reproduced, copied, disseminated, entered into a computer database, used in connection with a mailing list, or used for anything other than AAW member reference.
Website Access Logs, Cookies, & Links
Web server access logs for this website are kept by the AAW and/or its commercial Internet Service Provider and other service providers that support website operations. These logs may contain the IP address of the user's computer or proxy server, the date and time of the visit, the pages accessed, and other technical access information used for website administration, security, troubleshooting, and performance monitoring.
The AAW uses cookies and similar technologies to identify which pages are being used, to improve the website, and for statistical analysis purposes. Cookies may also be used on private parts of the site that are not available to the general public, including for registered users of AAW Communities and the AAW Forum when logged in.
The AAW also uses analytics tools, including Google Analytics, to help measure and report website traffic and usage patterns.
The AAW may also use browser-based technical monitoring and error-reporting tools to identify, investigate, and fix website problems. These tools are configured by the AAW for browser-side technical error logging, troubleshooting, and limited diagnostic telemetry.
These tools may receive technical information needed to investigate front-end problems, such as page paths, sanitized request URLs, page titles, error messages, stack traces, browser and device details, hostname, application release or version information, referrer path, viewport information, navigation events, console messages, fetch or network request metadata, status codes, and limited diagnostic events related to page load, request failures, or rendering failures.
The AAW uses these tools to distinguish between logged-in users and public visitors for troubleshooting purposes and to attach limited technical context to error reports. The AAW configures these tools to avoid or reduce the transmission of direct personal identifiers in browser-side error reports and to strip or reduce sensitive request details such as query strings, request bodies, cookies, headers, and similar data where feasible.
Please be aware that non-AAW websites accessed through links on this site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of third-party websites linked to woodturner.org are not covered by this Privacy Policy. You should review the privacy policy on those individual sites before providing them with any personal information.
Text Messaging
The AAW may offer the ability for members, customers, attendees, exhibitors, vendors, or other users to send text messages to the AAW and receive text messages from the AAW in response. The AAW may also use text messaging in connection with event registration and event operations, including symposium-related communications.
These messages may be used for customer service, member service, registration support, event support, order support, scheduling coordination, and other operational or relationship-based communications.
By contacting the AAW by text message, by providing a mobile phone number for text communication, or by opting in to event-related text messaging where offered, you consent to receive text messages from the AAW related to your inquiry, registration, relationship with the AAW, or services you have requested. Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply depending on your mobile carrier and plan.
The AAW does not sell mobile phone numbers or share them with third parties for those third parties' own marketing purposes. The AAW may use third-party service providers, including event registration and text messaging platform providers, to send or receive text messages on its behalf, subject to appropriate safeguards.
You may opt out of future text messages by replying STOP where available or by contacting the AAW directly. Opting out may limit the AAW's ability to provide certain text-based services, event updates, or responses you requested.
For additional information about our text messaging practices, please review our SMS Terms and Conditions.
Third-Party Service Providers
The AAW may use third-party service providers to support website hosting, payment processing, analytics, communications, event registration, text messaging services, security, and technical troubleshooting. These providers may process information on behalf of the AAW only as needed to provide services to the AAW.
Examples may include website analytics providers, browser-based technical error logging and diagnostic monitoring providers, payment processors, event registration platforms, and text messaging service providers.
Your Acknowledgment
By using this site, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for European Union
We believe you should know what data we collect from you and how we use it, and that you should have meaningful control over both. As part of that commitment, this Privacy Policy describes the information we collect, how we use it, and the choices available to you.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
If the AAW changes its Privacy Policy, those changes will be posted on this page.
More Information & Concerns About Privacy
The AAW is the operator of this website. If you would like to contact the AAW for any reason regarding its privacy practices, please contact the AAW at [email protected], 651-484-9094, 877-595-9094 (toll free U.S.), or by mail at American Association of Woodturners, 220 Landmark Center, 75 5th St W, St. Paul, MN 55102-7704.